Forty-one, four questions to Du Huan Taizong's war spirit
After Du Huan finished talking about his speculation, he couldn't help laughing, and Guo Yu and Xian Yuyan also laughed together. The habit of prostitution and dragon yang is indeed prevalent among eunuchs. Gao Xianzhi is indeed heroic, and no one will inevitably think of this layer.
"Hahahaha, in fact, even Lord Feng Changqing doesn't envy General Gao's handsome appearance! Sometimes when I see Bian Lingcheng and Feng Changqing arguing together, it really looks like a rival in love is arguing.
Later, I learned that Bian Lingcheng had a prostitute boy with him, and even Master Gao Xianzhi knew about it. I also let go of these speculations, if it is really a couple's relationship, I won't let my lover know that I have someone else!
Hey—I didn't expect that, though. Bian Lingcheng actually killed General Gao and General Feng in Tongguan!
It seems that there are many other hidden secrets in this, and perhaps only the parties concerned know. At present, they are all dead and missing, and it is estimated that this unsolved case will not be solved. ”
"When General Gao Xianzhi left Chang'an and attacked Talas City, he once saw a person, and he was summoned by that little Daogu, I don't know if Du Gongzi has a more detailed statement?"
"What is Guo Gongzi visiting General Gao?" Du Huan noticed something unusual and couldn't help asking.
"Yes, moreover, this matter has a lot to do with it, and it's not convenient to talk about the reason for the time being, I think this is not only related to General Gao Xianzhi, but also to why Gongzi was taken captive, so I hope that Gongzi will try his best to recall the situation at that time, and say that it is the same!" Guo Hua was straightforward.
"It has something to do with my robbery? It's just that many people have been dead for many years, and if there is really anything hidden, it should be as Childe said, and it's a big deal. Alas—since Childe asked, I might as well talk to you, and I'll be too talkative!" Du Huan pondered for a moment and said again.
"But this matter really doesn't really help much. Thinking about it in hindsight, that little Taoist aunt should not be an ordinary Taoist person, although she is dressed simply, the cutting and fabrics of the Taoist clothes are all superior! Her demeanor and temperament are also better than ordinary Taoist aunts, and she is generous in her speech and demeanor, and she is a little Taoist aunt who has seen the world!
Besides, there's not much to talk about. In short, the person General Gao wanted to meet must be very important to him, that is, after meeting that person, General Gao and Monk Huaixiu drank bitterly together, and then they cried loudly, and that time, it was Monk Huaixiu who General Gao took the initiative to meet! That person actually changed General Gao to such a point. ”
Du Huan stopped and looked at Guo Hua and Xian Yuyan with inquiring eyes, meaning that after he finished speaking, do you have anything else to ask.
"What about the nine-tailed beast? is that nine-tailed beast that suddenly appeared in Talas?"
"Is that harder? It's harder to say, I suspect I was wrong at the time, maybe I was in the depths of despair, maybe it was my hallucination, but I subconsciously thought it was real.
At that time, surrounded by 200,000 Great Food Legions, General Gao's horses were frightened again, and they fell into the enemy formation in a panic, losing the leadership of the general, I thought that we would never be able to return to the Western Regions, and we would never be able to return to the Tang Dynasty, very desperate.
However, after being captured, after a period of time, the spies of the Great Food Army came to report that General Gao and others had successfully broken out of the encirclement, and I was surprised and delighted.
After a while, I had the audacity to ask Prince Shi if the nine-tailed beast I had seen in the battle that night was real. Prince Shi confirmed my doubts.
He said that when he was about to be destroyed, at the mountain pass leading to the Western Regions, a huge monster with nine tails suddenly appeared, fiercely tore the Great Food Eater soldiers, destroyed the siege of the Great Food Eating Army, and frightened the Great Food Eaters to their knees repeatedly, and suddenly lost their ability to fight. ”
After Du Huan finished speaking, he stopped again and looked at the two.
"There is another thing I want to trouble Gongzi, when attacking Xiao Bolu, what about that shipment? The goods that were piled up in the warehouse disappeared for no reason, can Du Gongzi remember what kind of goods it was now?"
"Well, that's a problem. I haven't seen that shipment with my own eyes. And strangely, I asked many of the soldiers who were present at the time, and they all said that they had never seen any mysterious cargo!"
"Well? It's a weird thing. ”
"It's really weird, I'm sure I saw the goods piled up in the warehouse, but why do people say they haven't seen it?
Later, I had a bold guess. If you think about it, there's no way for a mysterious cargo to disappear out of thin air, and that's to make it unmysterious.
It's like if you walk down the road with a box on your back, it seems mysterious to people passing by, but if you get to your destination, you open the box and there is some wine and meat in it, and you take it out to your friends, and it will seem like a very ordinary box to those friends. When you ask people who eat meat and drink alcohol, they haven't seen any mysterious boxes.
So, I guess that shipment should be a batch of ordnance armor!
When I saw them, they were piled up in warehouses, tightly wrapped, very mysterious. After I left, General Gao called for the soldiers again and put them on one by one. It is very common to put on armor on soldiers, and what mystery is there for those soldiers? Naturally, they have not seen any mysterious bulk goods. ”
"Ordnance and armor? these are just ordinary trophies, is it necessary to make them so weird?" Without waiting for Guo Yu to ask, Xian Yuyan muttered.
"I didn't think of anything at first. Later, I heard from Prince Shi that before attacking Xiao Bolu, Tubo had sent a mysterious army, only more than 2,000 people, but it was claimed to have inherited the power of the war spirit of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and was very brave and good at fighting. Tubo sent them to the Western Regions to unite with Dashi and fight the Tang Dynasty together!
In fact, it has long been common for Tubo to secretly compete with the Tang Dynasty on the frontier. However, General Gao Xianzhi seems to take this matter very seriously. ”
"What can an army of 2,000 men do?" Guo asked.
"Hahaha, when Emperor Taizong was still the king of Qin, he once defeated Wang Shichong's army of more than 100,000 with 3,500 Xuanjia troops. If it is really the two thousand military horses that inherited Taizong's battle spirit, it is an absolute powerhouse!"
"Taizong's war spirit, why did An Lushan's rebels come to Chang'an and don't see * inherit Taizong's war spirit?"
Everyone was stunned by what the little monk said, this is really irrefutable!
"Hahahaha, whether it is the people of Tubo or the people of Shiguo, when it comes to talking, they will always mythologize and legend something. I think the battle spirit of Taizong in their mouths should be the Xuanjia army once led by Emperor Taizong, and the Xuanjia and weapons left behind. ”
"However, how did the Xuanjia and weapons left behind by Taizong end up in Tibet? Isn't this a matter of giving people a handle?" asked Guo Hua.
"There are many legends about the Xuanjia Army, and the whereabouts of the Xuanjia Armor are also very mysterious in later generations! But there is one that is related to the Tubo Dynasty, that is, Princess Wencheng entered Tibet. After Du Huan finished speaking, he paused.
"What? Those 2,000 Xuanjia ordnance are the dowry given by Taizong to Princess Wencheng? "Xian Yuyan joked.
"Of course not. It starts from the beginning. Songtsen Gampo is a versatile and talented man with both cultural relics, and is the only son of the 32nd generation of Tibetan Tsangpu Langri Songtsen.
When Songtsen Gampo was three years old, Langri Songtsen wiped out the Subi tribe and unified the whole territory of Tibet in one fell swoop, so Langri Songtsen paid special attention to the growth of this only son, so that Songtsen Gampo received a good family education and strict training, and Songtsan Gampo grew up, riding and archery, wrestling, fencing and martial arts, and was a talented man who loved folk songs and was good at chanting poetry.
When Songtsen Gampo was thirteen years old, Langri Songtsen was poisoned, the old ministers and relatives of Lao Zampu rebelled, and the Subi tribe also intended to restore the country.
The young Songtsen Gampo organized an elite force of 10,000 people, and it took three years to unify Tibet again.
Songtsen Gampo has a mind like mountains and seas, and actively absorbs foreign cultures, especially to Tianzhu and Datang, and actively communicates.
The young, handsome and heroic Songtsen Gampo naturally thought of marrying a young and beautiful Tang woman, so in the eighth year of Taizong's Zhenguan, he sent an envoy to the Tang King to ask for marriage, hoping to marry a princess of the Tang Dynasty as his wife.
Hahahaha, at that time, Taizong was even more Weijia Hainai, surrendered in all directions, known as "Tian Khan", remembering the harmony of the Han Dynasty, with his rudeness, he naturally rejected the request of the Tibetan envoy.
The envoy failed to complete his task, and in distress, he saw that the king of Tuyuhun had entered the Tang Dynasty to meet him and returned to Tibet, so he deduced that it was because the king of Tuyuhun obstructed him and obstructed his family's affairs.
As soon as the young and frivolous Songtsen Gampo heard this, he sent troops to defeat Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, and Bailanqiang under the pretext of Tuyuhun sabotaging peace, and the Tubo army approached Songzhou on the border of the Tang Dynasty, and threatened to send troops to harass if he did not agree to peace.
Taizong naturally didn't take a hairy child to heart, and ordered Hou Junji to be the handsome, Niu Jinda to be the vanguard, and lead the troops to meet the enemy.
Niu Jinda defeated the Tubo army in one fell swoop, frightened Songtsen Gampo, and hurriedly withdrew from Tuyuhun, Dangxiang, and Bailanqiang before Hou Junji's army was killed, and sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to ask for guilt, and at the same time once again made a request to Taizong for peace.
This time, Songtsen Gampo sent a shrewd and capable commentator, that is, the great minister of Tibet, Lu Dongzan.
Lu Dongzan brought five thousand taels of gold and all kinds of rare treasures, showing positive sincerity to the Tang Dynasty, Taizong saw that he was clever and skilled, very appreciative, so he named him the general of the right guard, and proposed to marry him to the granddaughter of Princess Langya, and asked him to serve the Tang Dynasty.
The witty and loyal Lu Dongzan said that he already had a wife instructed by his parents in his country, and his love was deep, and his own Zampu had never married a princess of the Tang Dynasty, so how could he dare to be a courtier. Lu Dongzan politely declined Taizong's kindness, but Taizong appreciated him even more.
After several twists and turns, Lu Dongzan finally contributed to the reconciliation between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo.
The one who married was the daughter of Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, who was named Princess Wencheng by Taizong, and was escorted by his father, King Jiangxia, to the relatives.
In order to demonstrate the prestige of the Tang Dynasty and intimidate the barbarians, the princess was escorted into Tibet by a team of Xuanjia troops led by Niu Jinda.
In the first month of the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, the team of Heqin set off from Chang'an, passed through Xining, crossed the Sun Moon Mountain, and traveled long distances to Lhasa.
Songtsen Gampo led his ministers to Baihai near the source of the river to greet Princess Wencheng, and met Li Daozong as a son-in-law, and then returned to Luo with the princess.
Princess Wencheng entered Tubo very smoothly, but on the way back to the Tang Dynasty, the marriage history team encountered a change, the team returned to early summer, and the Tang people were not familiar with the climate change of the Tubo Plateau, and the group suffered an avalanche, and the Xuanjia army led by Niu Jinda was almost completely killed and wounded.
Caused by natural disasters, the Tang Dynasty was not easy to make trouble, and Lu Dongzan sent someone to Taizong in time to present a golden goose seven feet high that could hold three buckets of wine to express his condolences. This matter is over.
However, in the years that followed, Songtsen Gampo continued to expand its territory, and it was rumored that there was a mysterious army among them, Xuanjia Xuangun, and even the vest was black, this army could fight well, and it helped Songtsen Gampo a lot to his hegemony.
In Chang'an, some people speculated that the armor and ordnance of the Xuanjia army trapped by the avalanche were taken away by the Tubo people.
After that, Tubo and Datang also fought openly and secretly in the Western Regions, which can be described as the fierce rivals of Datang.
When General Gao made a surprise attack on Lianyunbao, there was a Tubo team that was extremely brave and good at fighting, if it wasn't for the night surprise attack, plus General Li Siye's Modao team, I am afraid it would be difficult to win.
In addition, it was rumored that Tubo sent a mysterious force to collude with Dashi to attack the four towns of Anxi, I think that team is very likely to be the "Xuanjia Army" formed during the Songtsan Gampo period, because the Xuanjia Army came from Taizong, so it was the soul of Taizong.
Of course, these are all my guesses, because after breaking the small Bolu, I haven't seen any Xuanjia Army in Gao Xianzhi's team in a few battles, and I haven't seen that cargo again. ”
"Oh, there's still this thing in between. Does Du Gongzi know why those people kidnapped you, and there was no warning before?"
"I really don't know, although I have been back in Chang'an for a long time, because of the sea drifting and the fatigue of boating and driving, coupled with missing the old people, I lost my soul for a while. According to the family, they have been crazy for the past few months, and thanks to the help of Guo Gongzi and Master Huiguo, they have only woken up for a few days, and they have little to do with the outside world, so they naturally don't know the intention of that group of strongmen. Du Huan's mood eased and explained slowly.
It seems that he really doesn't know anything.
"Oh. By the way, Master Cen, who had been the shogunate judge of Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, returned to Chang'an, and he sent a letter saying that if my health allows, I want to go together to pay tribute to General Gao and General Feng."
Du Huan said again.